The Fuzzy Vault for fingerprints is Vulnerable to Brute Force Attack

08/22/2007
by   Preda Mihailescu, et al.
0

The fuzzy vault approach is one of the best studied and well accepted ideas for binding cryptographic security into biometric authentication. The vault has been implemented in connection with fingerprint data by Uludag and Jain. We show that this instance of the vault is vulnerable to brute force attack. An interceptor of the vault data can recover both secret and template data using only generally affordable computational resources. Some possible alternatives are then discussed and it is suggested that cryptographic security may be preferable to the one - way function approach to biometric security.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

research
01/17/2023

Multi-Biometric Fuzzy Vault based on Face and Fingerprints

The fuzzy vault scheme has been established as cryptographic primitive s...
research
12/16/2021

Revisiting Fuzzy Signatures: Towards a More Risk-Free Cryptographic Authentication System based on Biometrics

Biometric authentication is one of the promising alternatives to standar...
research
03/07/2010

Secured Cryptographic Key Generation From Multimodal Biometrics: Feature Level Fusion of Fingerprint and Iris

Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence...
research
09/28/2018

A Symmetric Keyring Encryption Scheme for Biometric Cryptosystems

In this paper, we propose a novel biometric cryptosystem for vectorial b...
research
03/18/2020

Neural Fuzzy Extractors: A Secure Way to Use Artificial Neural Networks for Biometric User Authentication

Powered by new advances in sensor development and artificial intelligenc...
research
05/22/2018

A fingerprint based crypto-biometric system for secure communication

To ensure the secure transmission of data, cryptography is treated as th...
research
05/18/2023

BrutePrint: Expose Smartphone Fingerprint Authentication to Brute-force Attack

Fingerprint authentication has been widely adopted on smartphones to com...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset